Allow me to interrupt this sex blog with an incredible video: in response to Wal-Mart’s new campaign to trademark the smiley face (this is true), Make: Blog has fired a seriously awesome and highly symbolic missive over the bow of the behemoth, at least in video form. It looks like they used the same Logitech Quickcam Orbit MP, with the smily face avatar. Snip from text:
“Wal-Mart is embroiled in a legal dispute over the smiley face image which it wants to trademark in the US. For the first time, the smiley face speaks!”
Watch The Great Dictator – “read” by the Wal-Mart smiley face on YouTube, or see the embedded video after the jump. Here’s the text if you want to follow along at home.
Update: I’m getting a lot of email from people who are trying to find this video on the Make Blog to no avail — I didn’t see it there, either. Someone sent me this as a tip; it’s only on YouTube as far as I can tell. My guess is that it’s not on their blog because it’s not about making anything. Except controversy, that is.
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